skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. If you don't trust anybody, who would you verify with?
This threw me off too. Sure Illustrator is probably a better tool for this than pen and paper, but it seems like far from the best choice. I guess that just makes this all the more impressive.
The question is essentially: Can the current approaches we've developed get to or beyond human level intelligence?

Whether those approaches can scale enough to achieve that is relevant to the question, whether the bottleneck is in hardware or software.
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For the vast majority of people, getting rid of necessary work will usher in an unprecedented crisis of meaning. Most people aren't the type pursue creative ends if they didn't have to work. They would veg out or engage in degenerate activities. Many people have their identity wrapped up in the work they do, or being a provider. Take this away without having something to replace it with will be devastating.
Debian developers, glibc developers and many others have been working on this for the past few years. It's more or less solved for most free software applications.

https://lwn.net/Articles/938149/
Yes, those categories. I should have been more explicit.

I found it confusing to look for a category among the unsorted boxes. It would help if they were sorted.
Wouldn't that mean that you want LLMs to advance further, not be at a dead end?
> According to leaked documents obtained by The Information, [OpenAI and Microsoft] came to agree in 2023 that AGI will be achieved once OpenAI has developed an AI system that can generate at least $100 billion in profits.
No, history is not always political. Political history is political, but there are other kinds of histories. Almost every sphere of human activity has history attached to it. Anything you do, people did before and there is a chain of influences and knowledge. We have to concede that the major developments in any of those histories do intersect with politics. For instance, if we trace the history of almost anything across the years 1940 to 1950, we almost certainly cannot ignore the both the disruptive and reinforcing effect of World War II. A lot of progress in STEM was accelerated by the war. But there isn't going to be a detailed political discussion there if our historic focus is something in STEM and not politics. The political details are tangential to that kind of history.

That's not to deny that there isn't an interesting point of view in exploring the connections among different threads of history. James Burke's fantastic Connections series comes to mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(British_TV_series...

Some people are keenly interested in the history of their profession or hobbies. E.g. musicians interested in the history of music, or the development of their favorite instrument and such. Hackers, software devs and computer scientists interested in the history of computing and retrocomputing. Etc. Usually they are not into the political connection unless they are also interested in politics.
This would be a great question to answer and would provide a lot of peace of mind.
The NFL passes net income back to the team owners. The taxation is generally the owner's problem.
Mirror: https://arbital.greaterwrong.com/p/behaviorist?l=102
https://archive.ph/2024.12.27-032130/https://www.newyorker.c...
Given the vulnerability of whistleblowers, I would suggest a (poorly thought out) mitigation:
The organization being whistled at must take full responsibility for the safety of that person at least until the case is resolved.

Obviously the details of the implementation would be important, and it likely could never be completely fair, but first goal should be to remove the serious risks involved in legitimate whistleblowing.
I'm well aware but consider what it means that the guy that created it has walked away from it
I'm a programer and bought typewriter. Novel starts writing by itself
I've never been a writer as a novelist. I wrote many blog posts, but never something meaningful. Recently I've started to looking at typewriters and fell in love in Smith Corona, so I bought Silent from 1946. Immediately after I started writing, novel started writing itself. I found that weird feeling, that I'm not a writer but just a channel or medium for that story to go through me on a paper. Anybody had this feeling before?
Some people jump early. I’ve stayed long enough - or returned later on request after doing a startup - to see whole orgs and product lines in telcos (!!), banks (!!!) and even government agencies (yeah, wasn’t really expecting that tbh) getting structurally better over time due to concerted effort of a relatively small group of folks.

I’ve been part of turnarounds where senior execs have said that the three hundred people here will lose their job if nothing changes. I still talk to some of those teams that transformed themselves and others, and made it.
Ruby is the best choice as a “learning” PL in 2024

For many reasons.

Next okayish choice is js/ts or python
Did you give up so much potential income that you couldn’t meet your short term and long term wants and needs?

What did you give up in your lifestyle that you personally valued to choose a lower paying job?

I’m 50, (step)kids are grown, we downsized from the big house in the burbs to a condo in a state tax free state, etc and while I could make “FAANG” total compensation (been there done that), I much prefer a more laid back job, remote work, freedom to travel,etc. I also have always hated large companies.

I would have made different choices a decade ago if the opportunities had arisen.

I’m well aware that my income puts me at the top quintile of household income (while still lower than a mid level developer at any of the BigTech companies).

https://dqydj.com/household-income-percentile-calculator/

Be as vague as you are comfortable with. But where are you with respect to the median income locally?
> Thanks! My point wasn't to argue that they are necessarily mutually exclusive, but that given a selection criterion of (entertaining+accurate>threshold), we shouldn't be surprised that it looks very much so.

That selection criteria is bad because it implies that more entertaining things can be less accurate, which is exactly what I'm trying to avoid.

The selection criteria I'd like to propose is transmits accurate information to intended audience. If it's not entertaining enough to engage said audience, it doesn't matter how accurate it is, and if it's not accurate enough, it doesn't matter how entertaining it is. Or put another way, entertaining > threshold and accurate > threshold.

> (and I wouldn't wish to discourage anyone from being accurate and writing for a small-circle[0] audience; just as there are people who make pop music, and people who make music for musicians, in the internet age only a mass market publisher should decry history for historians)

Of course! In fact, I have no problem with writing for no audience at all, I do it myself often. But I write it in my journal, and on the rare occasions I post it publicly, I don't whine if nobody reads it.

> In particular, entertaining usually involves telling something story-shaped and I'm not convinced —although I'll dig a bit into these recommendations[1]— that "what happened" always, or even often[2], has an entertaining shape.

I don't think "entertaining" necessarily involves telling something with a story arc. More often, I think, it involves making an argument, i.e persuading your audience why what you are telling them matters.
Your bookkeeping service shutting down with no notice over the holidays is not cheap either, my friend. Some things are worth paying for.
Does navigating spaghetti code count as well?
So if I sit in front of the keyboard and write an email with instructions to my programmer I‘m a coder.
ChatGPT can already run code, which allows it to overcome some limitations of tokenization (eg counting the letters in strawberry, sorting words by their second letter). Doesn't seem like adding a Prolog interpreter would be all that hard.
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Ah yeah, I forgot. Being outraged that other people have opinions that offend you is a good fallback if soothing methods 1 and 2 fail.
The economy isn't meant to serve us. It's an emergent system that evolves based on a complex incentive structure and its own contingent history.
Asking the latest o3 model one question costs ~$3000 in electricity. Looks like a dead end to me.
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Kando is a cross-platform open source pie menu which I am currently developing! It offers an unconventional, fast, highly efficient, and fun way of interacting with your computer! You can use it to launch applications, simulate keyboard shortcuts, open files, and much more. Let me know what you think about it!
But this plane was not hit by S200 - no S200 parts or hexagen was found by Russians at crash site.
As long as it’s accurate. The current technical implementation is a joke. The car has no idea what the speed limit is.

A few examples:

1) drive past the end of town sign in a particular German town, the car thinks it is 30kph, but only during the day because at night it doesn’t see the sign so it thinks it’s 50 where in reality it’s a 100 until the next speed limit,

2) driving between a couple of roundabouts inside of a town in the Netherlands, the car thinks it’s 30kph even though we stay within city limits and there’s no sign so the speed limit remains 50kph,

3) this is the funniest one so far… driving in Antwerpen along the Turhoutsebaan, there’s a massive 30 sign painted on a red painted road surface, the car insists that the speed limit is 50kph.

Those are just three out of a dozen examples happening consistently within 30 square kilometres I normally remain within. And I drive this car for 2.5 weeks. I have seen the future and I don’t like it. Number 2) happens routinely inside of the city limits after right or left turn. Car drops the speed limit to 30 just to realise a 100m down the road that it is 50.

Apologies for the ad hominem, I normally stay away from such tone. I genuinely hope that such pseudo cops like you get a grip. Because it’s my life you’re talking about and I already use speed limiter routinely. Every idiot around me on the road has exactly the same choice as me: curb the ego down and slow down or behave like a douche.

> but it would be even better if all cars' speed were automatically limited to the speed limit of each road

Yeah, you just described the ISA of 2027. This is going to be a tough year for car manufacturers. I forecast a ton of unsold new cars remaining on parking lots because one has to be really technically illiterate to buy something so dangerous willingly. Either full self driving or give full control. Everything in between is a disaster waiting to happen.

By the way, here’s a funny thought. So what is going to happen when that mythical zero casualties is reached and more people will be dying on bicycles than in car accidents? An implant in the brain? Where does it stop?
IMO this is looking at it through a lens which considers “tech” a single group. Which is a way of looking at is, maybe even the best way. But an alternative could be: in the battle between scrappy underdog and centralized sellout tech, the sellouts are winning.
ClosedAI! The naming is really confusing at this point, due for a clarifying correction.
This doesn't engage with the problem of coordinating everyone around some proposed solution and so is useless. Yes, if we could all just magically decide on a better system of government, everything would be great!
Dude I am from Ukraine but you have fun living in your magic world
What are you talking about? It literally has a program counter register, it's right there in you own link?

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jvms/se23/html/jvms-2.h...

I just mixed it up with Dalvik having multiple registers, but that makes it even worse. At least normal machines have more registers.

And literally here:

The following section provides general guidelines for tuning VM heap sizes: The heap sizes should be set to values such that the maximum amount of memory used by the VM does not exceed the amount of available physical RAM.

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E21764_01/web.1111/e13814/jvm_tun...

Maybe instead of telling me I'm clueless, tell me how you're right? What do you see in it that is actually virtializing a computer in your mind? Because I'm pretty sure that if someone sold you a VM service and it turned out to be just them running your programs under the JVM, you'd be kind of mad.
The definition of both history and politics is vague and broad enough that there's guaranteed to be a complete overlap between the two. Anything that ever happened is history. The reason why things happened a certain way (at least in the form it was written down) is politics.
LLMs can't provide fast, reliable answers at low cost.

Instead, they offer possibilities of questionable reliability at high cost.

In other words, they turn the traditional model of computing upside down.
> broadly gestures to the late stage capitalism hellscape

To quote The Dude - "that is like, your opinion... man".

People are better off than any time in history. Some people are more better off than others... and some people perceive other people's success as the cause/reason for their own personal failures.

Jeff Bezos has made every single person's life in America better by making products accessible to everyone regardless of economic bracket. Bezos' Amazon has compelled all other ecommerce companies to do better and offer better service to compete with Amazon. Literally everyone has won - except now that Bezos has been rewarded for creating one of the most important companies in the US, people want to tear him down. How dare he have more money than me!

Let's pick any wealthy successful person, the story is the same.

Those who believe the people who've built these mega companies don't actually provide value and/or earn their rewards are the very same people who have never and will never attempt to start a business and employ other people. The work only gets harder and there's more of it... Someone like Bezos is responsible for hundreds of thousands of jobs, perhaps millions when you consider all of the 3rd party sellers operating on Amazon these days.

But, it's much easier to just scream "LaTe StAgE cApItAlIsM!" than do anything about our own situations.

Read some books, work in industry to develop skills, then start your own business. Let's talk again in five years about this anti-business mood.
Thanks! I might have to hard reset the context on each request. Noticed it too.
Yep, agreed.

I'm pretty skeptical of the scaling hypothesis, but I also think there is a huge amount of efficiency improvement runway left to go.

I think it's more likely that the return to further scaling will become net negative at some point, and then the efficiency gains will no longer be focused on doing more with more but rather doing the same amount with less.

But it's definitely an unknown at this point, from my perspective. I may be very wrong about that.
What if you can do that with magic and comedy both at the same time? You get someone like Markobi.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJX-z0O9TOE
Yeah, it provides some history, and I wouldn't have flagged it personally, even though I don't think it was a particularly good response to the question. But then some one flagged my comment too, so maybe just trolls flagging everything.
The tricky part seems like it would be that one needs precision quite a bit better than one day. So either the measurement can be done over the course of many years or the time of the solstice needs to be determined to excellent precision.
I only read a chunk of the article but this stuck out:

In sum, Pocock was paradoxically under attack for being too liberal, but also for not being liberal enough. Said differently, Pocock was criticised for being too American and for not being American enough – all the more intriguing for a New Zealander.

If you have both sides criticizing you, chances are you got pretty close to a truth. Reminds me of Dave Chappelle, someone that both left and right culture warriors turned on in recent years.
> Taxi drivers may have a lower risk of developing Alzheimer’s because they are constantly using navigational and spatial processing.

A good reason to not use GPS/GNSS apps too much.

Unless it's going to a location that's completely unfamiliar, I try to only check for red zones before I leave, and then use my familiarity of my city to get to my destination: know my starting point, know a major intersection near the destination, and avoid known-bad locations in between. If I get lost I can always pull out the app to re-orient.
"The Ultimate Paper Airplane | WIRED"

Ahem. https://newatlas.com/great-paper-airplane-project/21961/

IMHO the actual flight characteristics of the aircraft are inputs to the `ultimate?` predicate function.
This could be a useful idea. But I'd have it so that the recommendations are either pulled in from some reputable sources, or if it's being added from your site, pul that info into a tool that ensures it gets surfaced in AI results elsewhere (better than normal SEO).

This site also shows some stack boilerplates/templates that are popular: https://www.native.express/
Apple knows how to allow one to find one’s devices without Apple knowing where they are. It’s not that hard.
It is. It's ridiculous when Israel hits aid workers with missiles and rockets, it's crazy when people wearing press jackets are killed even after communicating their position directly to military command and control. It's ridiculous when children die early, gruesome deaths because they sat next to a bad man with a pager at a Lebanese grocery store.

It's not the 1950s anymore, accountable nations are expected on the international stage to understand what exactly they are shooting at. Israel is under much closer scrutiny than Russia because they represent modernized doctrine and should be using their technological superiority to enable more targeted strikes rather than more indiscriminate ones. Modern Russian warfighting tactics have been under serious scrutiny since the Afghan retreat, then again in the Gulf War, and then again now during the retreat from Syria.

The only "clean" war Russia fought in recent years was Crimea, which was "won" by lying to the international community and breaking their trust forever. As evidenced by Ukraine, today's Russian republic cannot win a war with tactical prowess alone. The "special military operation" has devolved into IRBM fearmongering and rattling the nuclear sabre - Putin knows he's not the president of a world superpower anymore, he's a Tesco-branded Kim Jong-Un.
Look into Fusion360. I’ve used it for similar projects in the past with some success.
Sometimes when people decry lack of typing, it turns out that it's actually a lack of the ability to define a named structure type with named fields, rather than faking one out with an ad hoc hash table representing a collection of properties.
IMHO, Polish president plane should be counted too. It looks like pilots were tricked by Russians to descent to 50 meters instead of safe 100 meters.
>They would veg out or engage in degenerate activities

"Oh no the sinners might play video games all day"

I do expect the next comment would be something like "work is a path to godliness"
Made out of manilla file folders is approximately correct for the state of Air India's fleet right now.
I love this idea!! I'm working on Dutch learning as well and made a learners immersion dictionary for it;

So going by the screenshot in the readme where you have vaststellen;
https://hetnederlands.com/dictionary/vaststellen

The things you can do with language learning and LLMs is just incredible :)
what is o1/3?
Hold on, A video that infringes will almost most certainly be a mix of their content and your own new content.

You should have to negotiate a percentage fee, not assume the claimant is entitled to 100%
What you want is something is is exclusively for compiler time constants, rather than can merely use compiler time constants. I know I am being pedantic here, but that is an important distinction to make when dealing with computer programming languages, since the descriptions need to be free of ambiguity or there will be problems. What you had meant was unclear to me in your previous remarks. I understand now.
I realize this is largely a lost battle but strictly speaking "disinterested" means no interest in the sense of "conflict of interest." A disinterested party has no "interest" in one outcome over another and can therefore be trusted to be impartial in the matter. "Uninterested" means what you wrote, they are not interested in something in the more everyday sense of the word. Not everyone thinks it matters but the two words do have distinct meanings, and in some situations (like in conversations about values, politics, etc) it is actually worthwhile to be precise so that one does not inadvertently mislead the reader.
Wait a minute, they pushed you into an annual contract? And now that they aren't going to perform their end of the contract?

This is fascinating. That smells like actual fraud on their part.
..videoland ;)
After they were shot at, they were not allowed by Russian authorities to land in Grozny or any of the other nearby Russian airports, but were told to divert across the Caspian Sea to another country.

During the crossing, they were subjected to GPS jamming by Russia, and damage from the missile caused them to lose most controls.

The heroic efforts of the pilots got them almost to the airport, but at least some people survived.
I Built a Tool to Animate Boring Screenshots and Screen Recordings
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It’s especially useful for quickly creating animations to highlight features or workflows.

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Use ASAN:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_sanitizer
Thank you for the shout-out, really appreciate it. Your assumption is correct - it's regular HID device!
Although if you drew that out you'd have about the same.

Cron trigger.

Process.

Gpt API.

Database for persistence.

Email sender.

Which part of that wouldn't you have?
o1 pro knows when it does not know and says so explicitly. Please update your prior on LLM capacities.
I tend to do:

// TODO: <the name of some ticket>: <what needs to happen here>

e.g.

// TODO: IOS-42: Vogon construction fleet will need names to be added to this poetry reading room struct

I've not felt my name is all that important for a TODO, as the ticket itself may be taken up by someone else… AFAICT they never have been, but they could have been.
Do you service single member LLCs/S Corps?